Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

[Luet]

I waited until the icky boy stepped away from her side for a moment and then I went up to her at the meeting yesterday and told her that I appreciated her comment. And then I asked her how her Prelim went because it was originally scheduled for October but she told me it has been pushed back repeatedly and is now supposed to happen in December. We chatted for a few minutes about mundane things and then I hugged her and we exchanged "love you"s. And I didn't cry before, during or after. I feel like the Bigger Person. Maybe I can do this forever. But preferably she'll finish her doctorate someday and get a job elsewhere and they will all move away and out of my life. Please, oh please.

[starlooker]

I just spent 3 hours editing an email.

It was so much shorter than the first draft. Bare bones necessities.

I did not commit to writing my eloquent indignation or veiled threats. I'm wisely waiting on counsel from my advisor instead of making points that I'm not sure could count for anything.

Good job me.

[Gravity Defier]

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[starlooker]

I looked at the email from the person whose emails frighten me. And replied. Despite mounting anxiety.

*edit*

Twice!

[Gravity Defier]

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[ValentineNicole]

I've made it almost 2 days now. By the end of today it will be two days. I feel oddly proud.

[Young Val]

i stuck to my dinner plan tonight, and i decided to wait until i sleep on it to respond to henry.

[Seiryu]

I memorized lines for a skit in Spanish, even though I suck at speaking Spanish.

[ValentineNicole]

I'm not going to fail this semester. After all the stress it brought, I'm really proud of that accomplishment.

[Seiryu]

I have the same accomplishment except for my Roman History class. I just quit going after a while 'cause I knew I wasn't going to bring up my grade in that class, but I'm doing pretty well in my other three classes.

[Locke_]

I just rejoined pweb. And what the heck happened lol.

[VelvetElvis]

I resisted the urge to reply "ur mom" to the above post.

[eriador]

welcome Locke_

[Eaquae Legit]

Something about a server switch, Vic. Big crash, most of us went into withdrawl and some migrated over to Hatrack for our fix. Anyway, it came back up, and here we are.

You going to be sticking around?

[ValentineNicole]

VIC!!!!

[Seiryu]

I got one out of two of my eight page papers finished, but the other one is NEARLY finished. (I would've finished it today had it not been all icy and so forth. My school closed because a bunch of ice fell... )

[Young Val]

i cleaned my room. completely. i made my bed.

tonight, for the first time since september 5th, i will not be sleeping on a bare mattress.

i put the sheets back on.


serious triumph.

[Bevis]

I've been there.


Honestly, congradulations.

[ValentineNicole]

Kelly, you inspire me. I'm sincerely debating doing the same thing...

[anonshadow]

I finally got around to reading Madeline's story, and returning her email. Go me.

[ValentineNicole]

I started my laundry. I say started because I've only actually done half (thats 3 loads though!!) and have yet to fold any.

Also, 6 pounds!

[starlooker]

Today my mom called me and asked me what i was doing, and without thinking or missing a beat I said, "Oh, I'm about to head up to the school to grade some papers."

We both laughed.

I've heard my father say that, with that exact same inflection I used, about fifteen hundred million times over the course of my life (he's an incredible high school math teacher. If you've never heard me brag about him, ask me sometime).

I'm my father's daughter.

[starlooker]

I got an A on my multivariate final, and in the class as a whole. I missed nine out of 191 points (all, sadly, from the same question -- unfortunately, I'm not real good about interpreting the univariate follow up tests to a MANOVA)

Seriously. I go back and read those exams and go, "Damn, I understood that!?!"

It's way fun.

[Seiryu]

I got a B- on my Edgar Allan Poe 8 paged paper.

[Young Val]

i didn't cry once today. even upon hearing more henry stuff. and listening to The Last Five Years on repeat for seven hours straight. literally.


telling henry that he is the reason (indirectly) that i stood up to my mother. it does not make his life any easier to know it. but my job isn't to make his life easier anymore. it's to make myself into a happier, more confident, healthier person. and i needed to tell him that he was the subject of the fight for my own sake. even if it causes him pain and stress.

[Sibyl]

I just administered a WAIS-III today. To a real live person who is depending on me to tell her her IQ. I am awesome.
......
I survived my first Rorschach administration.

Congratulations! Wholeheartedly from one who does understand, who was once the wife of a Clinical Psychology graduate student, guinea pigged for him (not, of course, a "real live person" there ;^)) as a first test subject, and then watched (silently cheering) as he did the Real Things with naive subjects for the first time.

(and who also watched as he and his study buddy worked with a test whose name I don't remember that involved reproducing figures with pencil dots on paper, and concluded from it that they both had massive brain damage--the worst case of "Sophomore Syndrome" that I ever saw)--but I hope that story doesn't take the glow off the congrats....

[powerfulcheese04]

I get to read part of the script for our bowl game show.

I love being able to turn on the adorable cutesy voice.

[neo-dragon]

I've just discovered that if one were to google "scientific writing+cross curricular" the number 1 result is a paper written by me. My paper is also number 3 if one enters "scientific writing+science education". Kinda makes me feel like I'm some sort of leading authority on the topic.

[Jayelle]

Our blog is gonna be in the paper! Our blog is going to be in the paper!

...too bad we choose to be annonymous.

[Eaquae Legit]

I managed to read through an entire essay on Freud without laughing aloud once.

*beams*

[Dr. Mobius]

I didn't know the Eye of Argon had anything to do with the old nutjob. I guess I never made it that far without laughing.

[starlooker]

I just administered a WAIS-III today. To a real live person who is depending on me to tell her her IQ. I am awesome.
......
I survived my first Rorschach administration.

Congratulations! Wholeheartedly from one who does understand, who was once the wife of a Clinical Psychology graduate student, guinea pigged for him (not, of course, a "real live person" there ;^)) as a first test subject, and then watched (silently cheering) as he did the Real Things with naive subjects for the first time.

(and who also watched as he and his study buddy worked with a test whose name I don't remember that involved reproducing figures with pencil dots on paper, and concluded from it that they both had massive brain damage--the worst case of "Sophomore Syndrome" that I ever saw)--but I hope that story doesn't take the glow off the congrats....

Was it the Bender Gestalt?

Nice to feel understood I ran my family and friend as guinea pigs for a year, which was fun and I owe them bigtime.

[Sibyl]

I just administered a WAIS-III today. To a real live person who is depending on me to tell her her IQ. I am awesome.
......
I survived my first Rorschach administration.

(and who also watched as he and his study buddy worked with a test whose name I don't remember that involved reproducing figures with pencil dots on paper, and concluded from it that they both had massive brain damage--the worst case of "Sophomore Syndrome" that I ever saw)--but I hope that story doesn't take the glow off the congrats....

Was it the Bender Gestalt?

Nice to feel understood I ran my family and friend as guinea pigs for a year, which was fun and I owe them bigtime.

The Bender Gestalt it was! Hadn't thought the name of that test for years, but the bell rang as soon as you said it!

And (brag, smirk, unjustifiably) I knocked the top out of the WAIS, but we'd really expected that, from the results of the Stanford-Benets that I'd taken in school, the fact that I was working as a bookkeeper (on _paper_! in the Lower Paleolithic, this was) daily, so in daily practice at retaining ten-digit strings, forward and backward, and not being the naive subject.

[Claire]

Here is a personal triumph that probably EVERONE will understand:

I'm HOME! I'm done with finals!

[Clover]

That I passed Japanese 201; got a C+ even!

I am getting better at DDR. I do not feel like a complete n00b anymore!

I got called cute today, by a friend of mine.